- On March 18, NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.
- Their SpaceX capsule landed by parachute in the Gulf of Mexico.
- The splashdown occurred off the Tallahassee coast of the Florida Panhandle, ending a nine-month ordeal for the two astronauts.
- Wilmore and Williams spent 286 days in space — 278 days longer than anticipated at launch.
- They orbited Earth 4,576 times and had traveled 121 million miles (195 million kilometers) by the time they landed.
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